The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-04
ROYAL HOTEL GUESTS.
THEY ARE VERY DESIRABLE BUT
NOT THE MOST PROFITABLE.

New York-The Man That Bank on
the Tilden Vote in Iowa
New York, Sept. 3--The hotels of New
York have never entertained so many
representatives of royalty and nobility in
one year as they have during period dat
ing from March of this year to the pres
ent time Queen Kapiolani and her reti-
nue., the Prince of Siam and his following, a
rich Indian Prince, and the Duke of MARI
borough have been some of the titled
guests No first-cass New York hotel has
a monopoly of the patronage of nobility and
royalty, although all are eager to get them,
for they are great advertisement house
on lower Fifth avenue, of modest appear
pearance, but eminently select as to its
guests, had the Indian Prince aud the Duke
of Marlborough amons.its gusts. 1t is not
an expensive hotel, but it has and
keeps run on royalty, and especial
" on titled persons from Great
Britain and her provinces. An old hotel
man was asked how houses succeed first in
getting the patronage of wealthy and royal
foreigners. He replied that it is mainly
Que to the influence of their Wallets or SER
wants. The valet falls inwith the purser or
Captain of the steamer and makes inquiries
as to the best hotel. The Captain has his
favorite list of hotels whose proprietors
have not forgotten him, and his royal pas
sengers are pretty sure to go TO the house
that he suggests. Railroad conductors, too.
are very useful agents for hotels, and many
a conductor while in New York gets his
board free in consideration that lie will send
distinguished customers to the house.
But royal persouages arc not the most
profitable guests Of house. Your English
l.. 1ov- fn,. hn hnn ri of
himself and servants at a select hotel and
think it extravagant enough. The board
bill of the Prince of Siam and his retinue
while he was in New York did not exceed
$50 day, and the Queen of the Sandwich
Islands lived on much less than that,
a fact which may have been due to
the somewhat impoverished condition
of the treasury of the kingdom.
The big hotel bills paid in New York are
from the pockets of foreigners less high in
rank than princes or dukes or from Arueri-
cans. who, after all, are the best patrons.
Sarah Bernhard when in New York stops
at hotel whose best room costs $50 each
day She gets suite for herself and apart
ments for her attendants and the menagerie
of animals that she has with her The en-
tire cost of the lodging is about $75 a day,
and of her meals from the hotel cafe about
S25 She is not drinker of much expen-
sive wine. Patti and Nicolini, who are high
livers, and drink choice wine, pay more for
their meals and less for their apartments.
A prince of hotel patrons, however, was
de Lesseps. He and his family and servants
paid, at a well-known uptown house, the
princely sum of $500 a week. They had
their own cook in the kitchen and several
attendants, and lived on the very top
shelf An obscure Spanish Count, of
not very great wealth OF fame, was
at the same hotel prior to the coming
of de Lesseps, and although unknown to
fame on this side of the water he won dis
tinction as the banner hotel customer by
paying the princely sum of 81 500 per week
for his entertainment. When James Nc
Henry, the once time railroad magnate,
was in the zenith of his financial power he
was one of the most profitable customers of
New York hotels. He had his valet and
agent and attendants with him. Nothing
but the best suite of rooms in house would
answer his purpose, and although a light
eater he was not sparing as to the table.
When the Duke Alexis visited this country
he spent money very freely at the hotel
where he stopped, and his taste for Russian
dishes nearly drove the chef wild He de-
manded cheese and whisky as an appetizer
in the morning; his tea was brewed III a
samovir, according TO the Russian rule, and
nothing but the choicest of champagne, of
which Russians always get the best would
suit his taste.
However, the best aIl-the-year-round
guests are the Americans, and especially
those from the West, and the most profitable
OF these are the people on their wedding tour.
One hotel on upper Broadway makes quite
a feature of entertaining the latter class.
1t has bridal chambers that rent for S27 a
day, and good meal in its cafe will cost the
couple about SO Another house, farther
up town, makes a speciality of catering to
people who desire to he truly select, and es-
pecially to elderlj ladies of wealth who de-
sire to keep their daughters in the choicest
social atmosphere of hotel life that money
will buy. The house was owned by man
who recently ga, it to hi daughter as her
wedding portion, and she draws the hand
some income of IS, 900 a month from it.
Even at this enormous rental the landlord,
who died the other day, made 81 ,O0O, 900
out of the place. His hobby was
to keep the house select. There was
a well-conducted bar in an obscure part of
the hotel, but one evening some young men
in the saloon raised their voices above the
decorous key that was the rule of the hotel,
and the landlord at once closed and abol-
ished his bar. There is, perhaps, no other
city in the world where it would be possible
for hotel, running at such great expense,
to make money without bar.
1t is pretty hard TO find a hotel in New
Ork Uildu lSilJ making money. A LANDLORD
of one of the latest and most expensive
houses built in New York, died the other
day worth fortune. The proprietor of the
house spent more than million dollars in
its construction but it proved so profitable
from the start that it has given him no care
beyond receiving the rent when it is
brought to him. Indeed, it said that he
has never been inside.
But all the New York places that enter
tain royalty cannot boast of having within
their walls at one time Representatives of
such immense wealth as are sometimes
found of Il pleasant afternoon at a homely
little inn in the outskirts of the city at the
head of Jerome avenue A stranger would
pass it by as too humblefo for notice. 1t looks
like an old-time tavern with succeed walls,
its ceilings are low and its uncovered floors
are worn. Patronize the place and you will
be surprised to find that its charges are
equal TO those OF any first-class hotel in
New York. Its cuisine, too, is as good as
any to be found in the metropolis. There is
an air about the place of I'VE don't need
your patronage, but if you are willing to
pay the price we viii entertain you" II is
at this house that the Vanderbllts and the
milhoneire road riders have stopped ever
since old Commodore Vanderbilt began pat
Ionizing it. William II. Vanderbilt was es-
pecially fond OF it. and he used To gather
about him there his friends and drop into
conversation as he was seldom heard 70 do
anywhere else. 1t was no uncommon thing
70 see representatives of $500, 000, 900 gath